Write workspace
From Reading Notes to Your Own Writing
Turn what you have read into material for what you are writing — with the source lineage intact and the two workspaces doing their own jobs.
Reading and writing are separate workspaces on purpose
The Review workspace records works created by other people; the Write workspace holds your own original projects. Keeping them apart means your library of reading never blurs into your manuscript — and your manuscript never pretends a quotation is your own sentence.
Both workspaces cover Fiction, Nonfiction and Scholarly work, so a novelist and a researcher use the same structure with different planning and analysis pages.
Carry a passage across as a source, not a paste
On Plus and Studio, choose a saved highlight with its note, select a writing project and optionally select a draft section. Attribution and context travel with the source. Review the author, locator and publication details before citing. You choose the links yourself. Basic sources and citation insertion and tracking are included on every plan.
- On Plus and Studio, optionally choose the section a source supports; leaving it at project level is also valid.
- Keep the quotation short and attributed; the words remain the author's.
- Use your reading note — the reason you saved the passage — as the seed of your own paragraph.
Let ideas wait until they are ready
Not every thought prompted by reading is a project. The ideas area holds a premise and the reason it interests you until it is ready to become a project, so nothing is lost while it matures and nothing is started prematurely.
Draft against a plan built for the form
Starting a project means choosing Fiction, Nonfiction or Scholarly, and the planning pages follow: premise and structure for a story, argument and audience for long-form nonfiction, research question and method for a paper. Drafting then happens in real sections with their own statuses and live word counts.
Revise in passes and keep the record
Named revision passes let you fix one class of problem at a time — structure, then argument, then line-level — with flags showing what is left. Goals and sessions record what you actually wrote, and the finished manuscript exports as Markdown or plain text.
Try it in your own notebook
The Notebook plan is free forever and includes both the Review and Write workspaces across Fiction, Nonfiction and Scholarly. Prefer to look before you sign up? The sample notebook is read-only demonstration content — no account, nothing saved.